I am asking you whether the words 'climate change' are somehow not acceptable in your Department and your various releases.

Based on everything we know about this Administration's views on climate change, it would comport with the view that words such as 'climate change' would not be included in press releases from your Department.

this is not a top priority for the President.

Don't you think there should be a lead agency, maybe the State Department, which has $120 million to do the exact thing we're talking about?

I completely agree. As we look at modernizing our four public shipyards, and I have met with many of our workers in our shipyards, they want to have the modern tools.

I think if you are a Marine from Vietnam or World War II and you went into watching what the Marines were doing, you would have just been lost at what was going on with the amount of unmanned ground systems, vehicles that were in the air…

So I think it is an area we are working through. It is a challenge now.

You have certainly kept a laser-beam focus on getting to a 355-ship Navy.

These threats require us to consider how we can ensure that the Navy and Marine Corps have the resources they need.

In my opening statement, I referred to the Navy's new plan for modernizing the public shipyards, of course, after years of neglect.

I don't think we have a very cohesive strategy for countering the ongoing Russian efforts to interfere with our elections and our democracy.